laceflower

My gpu has been getting absolutely terrible temps (I think the original pad has worn away), so I've gotten an id-cooling iceflow 240 vga. It's the cheapest option rn for replacing the blower design on amd reference cards, I'm pretty sure, and I got it today.

I haven't put it on yet but out of the box build quality is very nice. I replaced the pcb fan (not a fan of ledfin fans and there's no non-rgb option) and it was a very simple, standard job that didn't need an instruction manual - the hoses and cable escape is held in place by a little metal bracket and once it's removed you can deal with cables or change the fan however you like.

Also on the fans, it comes with a dual fan assembly for the radiator. It has 4 mounting holes with 2 center screws that aren't attached to the radiator, and it looks very clean - unfortunately, rgb. Luckily, there's standard 105x mounting holes on the radiator so you can replace the fans

Sep 7, 2023 at 3:11amWeb
Show threadlaceflowerSep 7, 2023
Well no fucking wonder it wasn't cooling - previous owner thermal pasted it and didn't increase mounting pressure, and still managed to squeeze it all off the core
Show threadlaceflowerSep 7, 2023
Got it mounted now (use 65mm vega brackets for navi, the 53.3 hawaii ones won't work) and it was a pain but this thing actually rocks on first impression. Yet to actually stress but my temps in tf2 (was just playing to chill after) have gone from 70 to 32
Show threadlaceflowerSep 7, 2023
ran some benchies and it at least has room to stretch now. it still hits 97 (high but nothing concerning) in timespy, but the score went from 7k to 9k and its capping out its 180w power limit
Show threadlaceflowerSep 7, 2023

I didnt even try the included fans (have nf-a9x14hs on pcb, corsair sp120Ls on rad) but frankly I should put them through their paces. The 92mm fan looks cheap but it actually has an incredibly smooth rotation - it pushes noticable air through hand motion alone, and the shroud they made for the rad fans does look very nice.

I just don't even have a spec sheet on these things, so if they're actually good... A, very unexpected and B, maybe they could go to someone whod appreciate them